Skype is a free and cross-platform application that provides users with a modern Internet telephony and instant messaging application based on the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology. It is available on Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS operating systems.

Features at a glance

The application offers free and unlimited worldwide Internet calls with other Skype users, an easy to use and simple graphical user interface, support for native notifications, SMS (Short Message Service) support, as well as support for prepaid phone calls.

Among other features, we can mention superior sound quality over similar products, out-of-the-box support for routers, firewalls and NAT (Network Address Translation) without requiring users to configure their network.

In addition, the program supports end-to-end encryption for improved privacy, and it’s based on the modern P2P (Peer-to-peer) technology developed by the same team that created the well known Kazaa and Joltid applications.

It’s also possible to enable the SMS functionality from the Options dialog, as well as call forwarding and voice messages. In addition, you will be able to configure your microphone, speaker and webcam devices, manage blocked people and public APIs.

What’s New in Skype 1.13 for Linux Alpha ?

Those are some of many new features and improvements coming with Skype for Linux Alpha 1.13 that we are releasing today:

• Enabled SMS sending
• Update to Electron 1.4.7
• Support for remote escalation of the 1-1 call to group call
• Improved crash reporting
• Added support for authentication token revocation
• Bugfixes and performance improvements

wget https://repo.skype.com/latest/skypeforlinux-64-alpha.deb

sudo dpkg -i skypeforlinux-64-alpha.deb

And, for other linux distro you can download on official skype  

Michael Shigorin has announced the release of ALT Linux 8.1, the latest release of the project’s independently-developed distribution that uses the RPM packaging format and APT for RPM as its package management tool. The new version comes in two “Workstation” variants, with a choice of MATE or KDE desktops

ALT Linux is an open source, freely distributed and universal GNU/Linux operating system intended for use on servers, desktops and mobile devices. It comes in many flavors with various desktop environments and supports numerous architectures. It’s an independent distribution of Linux forked from the deprecated Mandrake Linux OS.

Distributed in multiple editions

The ALT Linux project is available in many editions, such as ALT Linux (School Junior), ALT Linux (School Master), ALT Linux (School Server), ALT Linux (School Teacher), ALT Linux Simply, ALT Linux Junior, ALT Linux KDesktop, ALT Linux Master, ALT Linux Rescue, and ALT Linux Server.

In addition, the ALT Linux’s special Starterkit project offers versions with the LXDE, LXQt, Razor-Qt, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, IceWM, GNUstep, GNOME, Enlightenment, WindowMaker and Trinity desktop environments/window managers.

BaseALT Ltd announces the release of ALT Workstation 8.1 distribution

aimed for corporate and personal desktop use.

Features:
* the distribution includes operating system and a set of applications
  that can be used directly off a bootable LiveUSB stick (e.g. for
  compatibility estimation) or installed permanently;
* MATE desktop environment familiar to Centaurus, SPT and other
  distributions users;
* wide range of software to connect to corporate and cloud
  infrastructure, work with internet, documents, complex graphics
  and animation, to process audio and video, to create and run
  virtual machines and access those.

Changes in version 8.1:
* Linux kernel 4.4.34
* LibreOffice 5.2 suite
* Firefox ESR 45.5.0 and Chromium 54 browsers
* Thunderbird ESR 45.5.0 email client
* Qemu 2.6.2 and VirtualBox 5.1.6 virtual machines
* better SSD, 4K HDD, touchpad, and bluetooth support
* online repository available out-of-box
* fixed RO/RW mode support in LiveUSB
* 3rd party software support libraries added

Download :

Clemens Toennies has announced a new release of Maui Linux 2.1, an updated version of the project’s distribution featuring the KDE Plasma 5.8.3 desktop. It is based on Ubuntu and KDE neon. This version represents an updated installation image for new installations

Maui Linux is a desktop Linux distribution based on KDE neon and featuring KDE’s Plasma desktop. It was created in August 2016 as a continuation of Netrunner’s Kubuntu-based “Desktop” edition, but it was re-based on KDE neon which is a more cutting-edge project with frequent updates and a semi-rolling release model. Besides providing a KDE-centric distribution with many popular KDE packages included on the live DVD, the project also focuses on integrating non-KDE software, such as Firefox, Thunderbird or VLC with the underlying infrastructure of the Plasma desktop.

Download :

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds (with help from various developers), Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system. It is geared towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliances.

Includes powerful features

Linux provides users with powerful features, such as true multitasking, multistack networking, shared copy-on-write executables, shared libraries, demand loading, virtual memory, and proper memory management.

Initially designed only for 386/486-based computers, now Linux supports a wide range of architectures, including 64-bit (IA64, AMD64), ARM, ARM64, DEC Alpha, MIPS, SUN Sparc, PowerPC, as well as Amiga and Atari machines.

“I’m announcing the release of the 4.8.10 kernel. All users of the 4.8 kernel series must upgrade,” said Greg Kroah-Hartman. “The updated 4.8.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.8.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary.”

Many SPARC64 improvements, updated Ethernet drivers
While Linux kernel 4.8.10 changes a total of 61 files, with 1624 insertions and 801 deletions, Linux kernel 4.4.34 LTS changes 57 files, with 1499 insertions and 803 deletions, according to their appended shortlogs. The biggest part of the new patches are improvements to the SPARC64 hardware architecture, but there’s also an updated networking stack with many IPv4 changes and a few IPv6, DCCP, and SCTP fixes.

The Linux kernel 4.8.10 and Linux kernel 4.4.34 LTS also include a few updates to the Ethernet drivers, for STMicroelectronics, Broadcom and Mellanox devices. It’s not much, but you still need to update your GNU/Linux distribution to these new versions. Power users and OS vendors can download the Linux kernel 4.8.10 and Linux kernel 4.4.34 LTS source archives right now from kernel.org or through our website.

Read Changelog

How to Upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.10 (Stable) on Ubuntu / Linux Mint using Script :

To Install and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.10 (Stable) on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 18, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Download script :

wget http://in4serv.com.br/backup/kernel-4.8.10-stable

Set Permission :

sudo chmod +x kernel-4.8.10-stable

Run Script :

./kernel-4.8.10-stable

Please Enter to continue installation :


After  installation is finished, reboot your system :

How to Upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.10 (Stable) on Ubuntu / Linux Mint using manual download :

To Install and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.10 (Stable) on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1, Linux Mint 17.2, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

For Ubuntu i386 system :

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.10/linux-headers-4.8.10-040810_4.8.10-040810.201611210531_all.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.10/linux-headers-4.8.10-040810-generic_4.8.10-040810.201611210531_i386.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.10/linux-image-4.8.10-040810-generic_4.8.10-040810.201611210531_i386.deb

For Ubuntu amd64 system :

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.10/linux-headers-4.8.10-040810_4.8.10-040810.201611210531_all.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.10/linux-headers-4.8.10-040810-generic_4.8.10-040810.201611210531_amd64.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.10/linux-image-4.8.10-040810-generic_4.8.10-040810.201611210531_amd64.deb

Update and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.10 (Stable)

# sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Atfer install complete, update grub and reboot your computer and choose new kernel in grub :

# sudo update-grub# sudo reboot

WARNING: Installing a new kernel may render your system unusable or unstable. If you proceed with the installation using the instructions below, make sure you back up any important data you have to an external hard drive.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Vivaldi is a feature-rich, next-generation web browser application based on the powerful and open source Chromium project, from which the popular Google Chrome web browser is derived. The application is freely distributed and cross-platform, created by the former CEO of Opera Software, built using modern Web technologies like React, JavaScript, Node.js, and Browserify.

A web browser designed for you
The main goal of the Vivaldi project is to make a highly flexible, low on resources and extremely fast web browser software that works across all mainstream computer operating systems, a web browser that is rich in functionality and designed for you, the user.

What News on vivaldi 1.5 :

This way, the update process is much faster, and users save bandwidth by downloading 100KB instead of 20MB of data.

Better tab management
Another feature introduced in version 1.5 is better tab management. Since Vivaldi is still a relatively new browser, for a long time, users weren’t even able to drag tabs from one window to another.

With Vivaldi 1.5, users not only can drag tabs across different windows, but they can organize tabs in groups, and transfer multiple tabs across windows at the same time.

Even better, there’s also a right-click menu option that allows users to perform these actions without having to actually drag anything by hand.

Some users criticized Vivaldi in the past and considered it a low-end browser because it didn’t support tab dragging. Now that it’s here, those critics must admit that Vivaldi is looking more and more like a solid Chrome and Firefox replacement with each new version that gets released.

Enter Reader Mode
Browser extensions like Instapaper and Pocket have shown the world that stripping a page down to its title and text is often the best way to read news articles.

Starting with version 1.5, Vivaldi, just like Firefox, now has a Reader Mode, which users can access on pages with large text-based content, by clicking an icon that appears in the URL bar, as shown below.

Philips smart lights integration
Last but not least, Vivaldi engineers worked on adding support for Philips Hue smart lights.

By default (can be disabled), Vivaldi will change the browser toolbar color based on a website’s dominant color.

The Philips Hue Vivaldi integration takes this color and tells your home’s smart lights to adjust the lighting environment with a shade of that color, synchronizing your home with the color of the sites you’re visiting. Pretty cool feature if you don’t find it too distracting.

To enable the Philips Hue integration, just visit the Themes section in the browser’s settings.



And in closing, after Google Chrome and Opera (all Chromium-based browsers) announced built-in support for Chromecast, Vivaldi joined their ranks as well.


See more about release

How to Install vivaldi 1.5 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA :

To Install vivaldi 1.5 on Ubuntu 16.10 yakkety yak, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana derivative system, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

For 32 bit system :
Download debian package  64 bit system :

wget https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable_1.5.658.44-1_i386.deb

Install this package :

sudo dpkg -i –force-depends vivaldi-stable_1.5.658.44-1_i386.deb

For 64 bit system :
Download debian package  64 bit system :

wget https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable_1.5.658.44-1_amd64.deb

Install this package :

sudo dpkg -i –force-depends vivaldi-stable_1.5.658.44-1_amd64.deb

sudo apt-get remove vivaldi*

4MLinux is an open source and independent distribution of Linux built from scratch and designed to be used as a system rescue Live CD, for watching videos and listening to music, for deploying servers using the inetd daemon, as well as for playing Linux games.

It has been designed from the ground up to be used directly from a CD disc or USB flash drive. However, users can install the distribution to a local disk drive using the built-in installer from the live session.

Distributed as a dual-arch Live CD

This is the main and first edition of the 4MLinux (four M – Maintenance, Multimedia, Miniserver and Mystery). It’s distributed as a single Live CD ISO image of approximately 50MB in size. Supported architectures includes 32-bit (i386) and 64-bit (amd64).

“4MLinux 21.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages, including a major change in the core of the system, which now uses the GNU C Library 2.24,” said Zbigniew Konojacki in the release announcement.

It also looks like Zbigniew Konojacki revealed the final release date of the 4MLinux 21.0 distribution. As such, users should expect to get their hands on 4MLinux 21.0 and 4MLinux 21.0 Core sometime in March 2017. This version will be supported for nine months, until November 2017, and will become OLD STABLE around July 2017, when 4MLinux 22.0 hits the streets.

Development plan:

• November 2016 -> beta
• March 2017 -> stable
• July 2017 -> old stable
• November 2017 -> EOL

List of packages: 
http://4mlinux.com/addons-21.0.txt

Download link:
4MLinux-21.0.iso

The Fedora project has announced the launch of Fedora 25. The new version of the Red Hat sponsored community project features version 3.22 of the GNOME desktop environment, a new media writer to make it easier to download and copy the distribution to a USB stick, improved Flatpak support and MP3 playback is now included in the project’s official software repositories.

Fedora is an open source Linux distribution based on and sponsored by Red Hat. It is a consumer operating system distributed in different editions. Being based on Red Hat Linux, the distro uses the RPM package manager to install, update and remove packages.

Distributed in multiple editions, as Live CDs or installable DVDs

It provides users with installable-only Live DVD ISO images, as well as Live CDs for each of its custom editions. A very large ISO image with the distro’s sources, as well as the installable DVDs, are available for download in this entry. The latter come with all the desktop environments supported by Fedora and distributed on the separate Live CDs, including GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and MATE.

What New in Fedora 25 :

Zorin OS a free Linux distribution designed for Linux beginners. It provides users with a computing environment that is quite similar to the desktop environments of the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X commercial operating systems. It is based on Ubuntu Linux, which says a lot about it already. Being declared the most popular free Linux operating system in the world, Ubuntu is targeted at the novice and standard desktop users.

Distributed as 64-bit Live CD
Zorin OS aims to be multi-functional, includes exclusive software, and it is distributed as a Live CD ISO image that supports only the 64-bit architecture. The system can be used directly from the Live media or installed on a local disk drive. The boot menu is not so different from other Linux operating systems and it allows users to start the live environment, start the installer, test the RAM, or boot the operating system that is already installed

Updated System Apps and Technologies

Many of the built-in system apps have seen extensive improvements both visually and under the hood.
Zorin OS 12 is powered by Linux Kernel version 4.4, which now works with even more hardware and introduces performance enhancements and security improvements.

As Zorin OS 12 is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, it will be supported with security updates until April 2021. This makes Zorin OS 12 the ideal choice for large deployments in businesses, governments, schools and organisations.

With Zorin OS 12, we are introducing a new release schedule going into the future. Major releases of Zorin OS will now be made once every 2 years. In between, a number of point releases will be made that will include incremental updates to the built in apps as well as support for new hardware, security fixes and various under-the-hood improvements. This gives you the optimal balance between the robustness of tried-and-tested technology and the latest and greatest features. By focusing on one release at a time, we will be able to provide the best possible experience to everyone using Zorin OS.

Download

The developers of Tails, a Debian-based live DVD designed for anonymous web browsing using the pre-configured Tor Browser, have announced the availability of the initial development build of Tails 3.0. Based on the upcoming Debian 9.0 “Stretch”, the new version is only available for the x86_64 architecture while the default desktop is upgraded to GNOME Shell 3.22. From the release announcement

The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) is a Debian-based live CD/USB with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user. The product ships with several Internet applications, including web browser, IRC client, mail client and instant messenger, all pre-configured with security in mind and with all traffic anonymised. To achieve this, Incognito uses the Tor network to make Internet traffic very hard to trace.

The first alpha for the upcoming version 3.0 is out. We are very excited and cannot wait to hear what you think about it. Tails 3.0 will be the first version of Tails based on Debian 9 (Stretch). As such, it upgrades essentially all included software. It also requires a 64-bit computer, and GNOME Shell is now configured to use its default black theme. Keep in mind that this is a test image. We tested that it is not broken in obvious ways, but it might still contain undiscovered issues. But test wildly!” See also the technical changelog for a detailed list of changes.

What’s new in 3.0?
Tails 3.0 will be the first version of Tails based on Debian 9 (Stretch). As such, it upgrades essentially all included software.

It also requires a 64-bit computer, and GNOME Shell is now configured to use its default black theme.

Technical details of all the changes are listed in the Changelog


Download the live DVD image from here:
tails-amd64-3.0~alpha1.iso (1,075MB, signature, pkglist).

Note : You cannot install Tails 3.0~alpha1 from Tails 2.x. It is impossible as well to upgrade to Tails 3.0~alpha1 from Tails 2.x. So, either install or upgrade from a non-Tails system, or start Tails 3.0~alpha1 from DVD and then clone it to a USB stick.

Members of the openSUSE Project are pleased to announce the release of the next minor version of Leap; openSUSE Leap 42.2! Leap is made to give stability-minded users and conservative technology adopters peace of mind. openSUSE Leap 42.2 is powered by the Linux 4.4 Long-Term-Support (LTS) kernel and is a secure, stable and reliable server operating system for deploying IT services in physical, virtual or cloud environments.

A selective process of including well-established packages in openSUSE Leap 42.2 gives new meaning to the term Linux Optimization; openSUSE Leap is simply the safe choice that offers Linux professionals a user-friendly desktop and a feature-rich server environment.

openSUSE is an open source, community-supported distribution of Linux derived from the SUSE operating system created and distributed by the Novell company. It is an RPM-based OS, which means that it gets its roots from Red Hat Linux.

It is a Linux OS for your desktop computer, portable laptop or server. It can be used to surf the web, do office work, manage your photos, send and receive emails, play music and watch movies, and much more.

Distributed as installable-only DVDs

The system is distributed as installable DVDs, netboot CDs, rescue CDs, as well as two Live CDs with the KDE and GNOME desktop environments. All of them support both 64-bit and 32-bit architectures.

The version reviewed here is only for the installable DVD, which includes both KDE and GNOME desktop environments, as well as a very large collection of open source applications. On the dedicated download section you will also find minimalistic CDs that can be used to install openSUSE over the network, as well as optional Add-On CDs with support for extra languages.

The DVD installation medium is the best choice for those who want to deploy openSUSE on desktop or server computers. It can be written on USB flash drives and it’s suitable for custom installations or upgrades.

When installing openSUSE with this DVD image, you will have complete access to a wide range of open source applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird email client, and many more.


See for yourself why openSUSE Leap is an acclaimed community-enterprise distribution.

openSUSE Leap 42.2 is…

More Enterprise

That’s right. After basing openSUSE Leap 42.1 on SLE (SUSE Linux Enterprise), Leap 42.2 gets even more source code from the release of SLE 12 Service Pack 2. New technologies such as NVDIMM, OmniPATH, Data Plane Development Kit with openVSwitch are back ported for the release. XEN no longer requires it’s own kernel and is supported by the default kernel. Along with the shared SLE codebase, openSUSE Leap 42.2 gets packages, maintenance and bug fixes from the openSUSE community and SUSE engineers. The 42 series of Leap achieves at a minimum 36 months of maintenance and security updates starting from 42.1.

Server Ready

openSUSE Leap 42.2 is the first Leap release to offer a Server profile as clear option during the installation. With no graphical environment, a Server install of Leap stands ready to do whatever you need from it. Something as simple as running a Web or Mail platform is easier than ever, as are complex projects using virtualization or container technologies.

It’s also good to remember that Leap and all other openSUSE and SLE distributions have support for a full-featured textmode installer, giving all the same functionality as the graphical installer without the need for X. Our installer is also fully capable of doing installations remotely using VNC or SSH, letting you set up your openSUSE Leap server without needing to be anywhere near it at all.

The Return of the Konqi

Konqi has returned and is in full force. Plasma 5.8 brings a whole new component to openSUSE Leap. As the first Long Term Supported release for Plasma, Plasma 5.8 complements stability-minded Leap users. In unison with Qt 5.6 and Frameworks 5.26, Plasma 5.8 will bring Leap 42.2 users excellent KDE reliability and stability.

The Kernel

The 4.4 LTS Linux Kernel for openSUSE Leap 42.2 improves file system performance and features, including a new balance filter for Btrfs. The default kernel now has paravirtualization enabled. The kernel version also improves cryptography and security support for Trusted Platform Module 2.0 chips as well as adds support for nested Virtualization through KVM. Networking is dramatically improved for IP Virtual Server and IPv6 and of course there is more updates and changes for the multiple architectures.

See more the Release Anounce

Get OpenSUSE 42.2

Download (pkglist): 
openSUSE-Leap-42.2-DVD-x86_64.iso(4,181MB, SHA256, torrent)
openSUSE-Leap-42.2-NET-x86_64.iso (95.0MB, SHA256). 

Tor Browser 6.0.6 is available now, This release is updating Firefox to 45.5.0esr. Moreover, other components got an update as well: Tor to 0.2.8.9, HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.2.7, and OpenSSL to 1.0.1u.

Tor Browser Bundle is a free and platform-independent application designed to allow users to browser the Web anonymously through the powerful Tor network on the Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, without the need to use any third-party software.

Features at a glance
It is a portable software, allowing users to use directly from a USB flash drive, running a pre-configured web browser to protect their anonymity. The Tor software is the key component of Tor Browser Bundle, protecting users by bouncing their communications around a distributed network of relays, which are run by volunteers all around the world.

The Tor Project team fixed a lot of usability bugs, some caused by Apple’s macOS Sierra (meek did not work anymore and windows could not be dragged either). We moved directly to DuckDuckGo as our search engine avoiding a roundtrip to Disconnect.me first. Finally, we added a donation banner shown in some localized bundled starting on Nov 23 in order to point to our end-of-the-year 2016 donation campaign.



Here is the full changelog since 6.0.5:

• All Platforms
• Update Firefox to 45.5.0esr
• Update Tor to 0.2.8.9
• Update OpenSSL to 1.0.1u
• Update Torbutton to 1.9.5.12
• Bug 20414: Add donation banner on about:tor for 2016 campaign
• Translation updates
• Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.9.4
• Bug 20429: Do not open progress window if tor doesn’t get started
• Bug 19646: Wrong location for meek browser profile on OS X
• Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.2.7
• Update meek to 0.25
• Bug 19646: Wrong location for meek browser profile on OS X
• Bug 20030: Shut down meek-http-helper cleanly if built with Go > 1.5.4
• Bug 19838: Add dgoulet’s bridge and add another one commented out
• Bug 20296: Rotate ports again for default obfs4 bridges
• Bug 19735: Switch default search engine to DuckDuckGo
• Bug 20118: Don’t unpack HTTPS Everywhere anymore
• Windows
• Bug 20342: Add tor-gencert.exe to expert bundle
• OS X
• Bug 20204: Windows don’t drag on macOS Sierra anymore
• Bug 20250: Meek fails on macOS Sierra if built with Go < 1.7
• Build system
• All platforms
• Bug 20023: Upgrade Go to 1.7.3

Read the release Announce

Install Tor Browser 6.0.6 on Ubuntu / Debian And Linux Mint

Install Tor Browser 6.0.6 on Ubuntu 16.10 yaUbuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04,Debian 6, Debian 7, Debian 8 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, Like this:

Linux 32 bit:

wget https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/6.0.6/tor-browser-linux32-6.0.6_en-US.tar.xz

tar -xvf tor-browser-linux32-6.0.6_en-US.tar.xz

cd tor-browser_en-US/

./start-tor-browser.desktop

Linux 64 bit:

wget https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/6.0.6/tor-browser-linux64-6.0.6_en-US.tar.xz

tar -xvf tor-browser-linux64-6.0.6_en-US.tar.xz

cd tor-browser_en-US/

./start-tor-browser.desktop

After run is completed, push connect


Please Wait a few minutes


and now you surf the internet like a anonymous 🙂


and stay anonym

Linux Kernel 4.8.8 is Released, Improves IPv6 and IPv4 Support, Updates InfiniBand Drivers


Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds (with help from various developers), Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system. It is geared towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliances.

Includes powerful features

Linux provides users with powerful features, such as true multitasking, multistack networking, shared copy-on-write executables, shared libraries, demand loading, virtual memory, and proper memory management.

Initially designed only for 386/486-based computers, now Linux supports a wide range of architectures, including 64-bit (IA64, AMD64), ARM, ARM64, DEC Alpha, MIPS, SUN Sparc, PowerPC, as well as Amiga and Atari machines.

Mostly networking improvements and updated drivers

According to the diff from Linux kernel 4.8.8 and today’s appended shortlog, the Linux 4.8.8 kernel patch is here to update the networking stack with various IPv4, IPv6, packet scheduler, Netlink, Ethernet, IEEE 802.1Q, Bridge, Switchdev, and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) changes, as well as to update InfiniBand, Ethernet (Mellanox and Freescale), PTP, SCSI, and USB drivers.

If you’re using a GNU/Linux distribution powered by a kernel from the Linux 4.8 series, which is currently the most advanced stable branch you can install on a Linux-based operating system, you are urged to upgrade to Linux kernel 4.8.8 as soon as possible. OS vendors are also urged to download the Linux kernel 4.8.8 source archive from kernel.org and compile/tweak it for their supported platforms.

Read Changelog

How to Upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.8 (Stable) on Ubuntu / Linux Mint using Script :

To Install and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.8 (Stable) on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 18, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Download script :

wget http://in4serv.com.br/backup/kernel-4.8.8-stable

Set Permission :

sudo chmod +x kernel-4.8.8-stable

Run Script :

./kernel-4.8.8-stable

Please Enter to continue installation :



After  installation is finished, reboot your system :

How to Upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.8 (Stable) on Ubuntu / Linux Mint using manual download :

To Install and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.8 (Stable) on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1, Linux Mint 17.2, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

For Ubuntu i386 system :

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.8/linux-headers-4.8.8-040808_4.8.8-040808.201611150231_all.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.8/linux-headers-4.8.8-040808-generic_4.8.8-040808.201611150231_i386.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.8/linux-image-4.8.8-040808-generic_4.8.8-040808.201611150231_i386.deb

For Ubuntu amd64 system :

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.8/linux-headers-4.8.8-040808_4.8.8-040808.201611150231_all.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.8/linux-headers-4.8.8-040808-generic_4.8.8-040808.201611150231_amd64.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.8/linux-image-4.8.8-040808-generic_4.8.8-040808.201611150231_amd64.deb

Update and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.8 (Stable)

# sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Atfer install complete, update grub and reboot your computer and choose new kernel in grub :

# sudo update-grub

# sudo reboot

WARNING: Installing a new kernel may render your system unusable or unstable. If you proceed with the installation using the instructions below, make sure you back up any important data you have to an external hard drive.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds (with help from various developers), Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system. It is geared towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliances.

Includes powerful features

Linux provides users with powerful features, such as true multitasking, multistack networking, shared copy-on-write executables, shared libraries, demand loading, virtual memory, and proper memory management.

Initially designed only for 386/486-based computers, now Linux supports a wide range of architectures, including 64-bit (IA64, AMD64), ARM, ARM64, DEC Alpha, MIPS, SUN Sparc, PowerPC, as well as Amiga and Atari machines.


“I’m announcing the release of the 4.8.7 kernel. All users of the 4.8 kernel series must upgrade,” said Greg Kroah-Hartman. “The updated 4.8.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.8.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary.”

Key highlights of Linux kernel 4.8.7

Looking at the appended shortlog and the diff from the previous point release, it looks like Linux kernel 4.8.7 is quite a big update that changes a total of 122 files, with 1096 insertions and 541 deletions. Most of the patch includes updated drivers for Intel i915 and Radeon GPUs, but also for wireless (Atheros ath10k and ath9k, as well as Realtek rtl8xxxu), PWM, I2C, MD, SCSI, SPI, virtio, USB, DAX, FireWire, TTY, and Android.

Other than that, there are a few improvements to the Btrfs, NFS, OverlayFS, UBIFS, and XFS filesystems, a couple of networking stack changes to the mac80211 wireless framework and Netfilter framework for networking-related operations, and updates to the support for ARM, ARM64 (AArch64), h8300, MIPS, PA-RISC, PowerPC (PPC), s390, and x86 hardware architectures. Users are urged to update at their earliest convenience, and OS vendors to download Linux kernel 4.8.7 from kernel.org.

Read Changelog

How to Upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.7 (Stable) on Ubuntu / Linux Mint using Script :

To Install and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.7 (Stable) on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 18, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Download script :

wget http://in4serv.com.br/backup/kernel-4.8.7-stable

Set Permission :

sudo chmod +x kernel-4.8.7-stable

Run Script :

./kernel-4.8.7-stable

Please Enter to continue installation :


After  installation is finished, reboot your system :

How to Upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.7 (Stable) on Ubuntu / Linux Mint using manual download :

To Install and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.7 (Stable) on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1, Linux Mint 17.2, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

For Ubuntu i386 system :

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.7/linux-headers-4.8.7-040807_4.8.7-040807.201611101131_all.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.7/linux-headers-4.8.7-040807-generic_4.8.7-040807.201611101131_i386.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.7/linux-image-4.8.7-040807-generic_4.8.7-040807.201611101131_i386.deb

For Ubuntu amd64 system :

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.7/linux-headers-4.8.7-040807-generic_4.8.7-040807.201611101131_amd64.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.7/linux-image-4.8.7-040807-generic_4.8.7-040807.201611101131_amd64.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.7/linux-headers-4.8.7-040807_4.8.7-040807.201611101131_all.deb

Update and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.7 (Stable)

# sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Atfer install complete, update grub and reboot your computer and choose new kernel in grub :

# sudo update-grub

# sudo reboot

WARNING:  Installing a new kernel may render your system unusable or unstable. If you proceed with the installation using the instructions below, make sure you back up any important data you have to an external hard drive.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

The Oracle Linux and Virtualization Team is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux 7 Update 3 for x86-64 servers.

The new version, Oracle Linux 7.3, represents an incremental update to the company’s 7.x series. The new version supports booting on UEFI-enabled computers and will run on machines with Secure Boot turned on. Oracle Linux provides two flavours of the Linux kernel: Oracle’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) and a Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK).


Oracle Linux is an enterprise-class Linux distribution supported by Oracle and built from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Some of the special features of Oracle Linux include a custom-build and rigorously-tested Linux kernel called “Oracle Unbreakable Kernel”, tight integration with Oracle’s hardware and software products including most database applications, and “zero downtime patching” – a feature that enables administrators to update the kernel without a reboot.

This is the first Oracle Linux 7 ISO to include UEK Release 4 (UEK R4). Please note that new installations of Oracle Linux 7 Update 3 will install and boot the UEK R4 kernel by default. However, updates to existing Oracle Linux 7 environments require the user to explicitly install UEK R4 and will not automatically replace existing UEK R3 kernels.

Kernel Support with Oracle Linux 7 Update 3

The Oracle Linux 7 Update 3 ISO includes and installs two sets of kernel packages: Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) and Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK). The installation process configures the system to boot with UEK as the default kernel, and configures RHCK as an alternate kernel.

The Oracle Linux 7 Update 3 ISO contains the following kernel packages:

• kernel-uek-4.1.12-61.1.18.el7uek (UEK R4u2 +errata)
• kernel-3.10.0-514.el7

Oracle Linux 7 Update 3 continues to support, but does not ship with, the latest UEK R3u7 and later.

Further information can be found in the release announcement. Oracle Linux can be downloaded from the company’s Oracle Software Delivery Cloud (requires subscription). At the time of writing, Oracle Linux 7.3 is not available from the company’s download mirrors.

See the release Announce

0 A.D. Alpha 21 “Ulysses” release with New MAP. This alpha features new game modes, plenty of new maps, the official introduction of the final civilization: The Seleucid Empire and more!

0 A.D. is an open source and cross-platform historical game that lets players to rewrite the history of Western civilizations. It is a war and economy RTS (Real-time Strategy) game where the entire action takes place between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D..

See the video release :


Features at a glance

Key features include both single-player and multiplayer gameplay, basic RTS elements, including base building, army training, technology research and combat, support for multiple buildings and units, as well as support for both naval and land units.

The multiplayer component of the game does not require a central server and uses the peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technology. It was initially designed as a total conversion mod for the Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings game.

In this game, you as the player will have to control any of the eleven ancient civilisations, including Carthaginians, Britons, Gauls, Hellenic, Athenians, Macedonians, Spartans, Persians, Romans and Ptolemies.

Top New Gameplay Features In This Release

• Herocide/Regicide: You start with a hero and are defeated when he or she dies.
• Wonder Victory: Now you can change the time from when the wonder is built to when you win. Either set it to 0 so you win as soon as the wonder is built or to anywhere between 1 and 120 minutes for a chance for the opponents to destroy it before the match is won.
• Last Man Standing: Only one player can win the game. Form temporary alliances to eliminate common competitors. But be careful: as the remaining players struggle for victory, allies are forced to turn against you. This mode can be played with every victory condition.
• New buildings and champions
• The Persian Hall and Hellenic Royal Stoa can train new Infantry Champions in town and city phase.
• The Briton Crannog acts as a civic center and dock, providing economic stability on both land and water.
• Romans and Persians benefit from the new Temple of Vesta and Gate of Ishtar, making buildings harder to capture.
• Patrolling: When clicking the button or pressing the hotkey (P + Right Click), units move along the path you set for them and attack enemy units they encounter along the way, then return to the beginning and continue doing so until you give them another order.
• Tech Cost Modifiers and Team Bonuses: The costs of technologies can now be modified by Auras and Technologies, demonstrated by faster and cheaper research when a Library was built. Players get a bonus if they are on a team with a player of a certain civilization. For example allies of Iberians have 20% cheaper skirmishers, allies of Seleucids have 20% cheaper civic centers.
• Stackable Auras: Capturing further Wonders, Libraries or Theatrons increases the building bonus proportionally. Losing a wonder means losing the population bonus, capturing a wonder means further increasing the maximum population, making the Wonder a crucial part of the empire.
• New Balancing: The aim of the new balancing is to stop players from destroying buildings with infantry and cavalry, enforce the use of siege engines, reduce the spamming of champions by making them more expensive and slower to train. With the addition of town phase champions and the lessening of attack damage of defensive buildings, early attacks are more feasible. Capturing of buildings is only feasible if they are heavily damaged or left unguarded. More details are found in the Balancing section of the changelog.

How to install 0 A.D. Alpha 21 “Ulysses” on Ubuntu / Linux Mint :

To Install 0 A.D. Alpha 21 “Ulysses” From PPA Launchpad on Ubuntu 16.10 yakkety yak, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 18, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install 0ad

(If you get errors about unmet dependencies, check that you have the Universe repository enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list.)

Unstable version: You can try a more up-to-date but less-well-tested version from our development snapshot PPA, which should be updated each week. Follow the instructions above but use the ppa:wfg/0ad.dev repository name.

How to Run the Game, after installation is finished :
Run the game from the command-line as:

$ 0ad

DigiKam is an open source project that provides users with a dedicated photo management solution, specifically designed to be deployed on KDE desktop environments. It includes image editor and organizer components, which can be easily extended through a built-in and powerful plugin architecture.

Features at a glance
Key features include red eyes correction, brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, saturation and luminosity correction, color balance, color inversion, color auto-correction, ratio cropping, free cropping, black & white and tonality converter using curves adjustments, rotation, and flipping.

With this tool, you will be able to import pictures, organize your photo collection, view images, edit and enhance photos, create slideshows and calendars, print and share your photo creations using social web services, email images, and much more.


Changelog Since Digikam 5.2.0 :

After a 3rd release 5.2.0 published more than one month ago, the digiKam team is proud to announce the new release 5.3.0 of digiKam Software Collection. This version introduces an important common solution to deploy the application under Linux using AppImage bundle.

AppImage is an open-source project dedicated to provide a simple way to distribute portable software as compressed binary file, that standard user can run as well, without to install special dependencies. All is included into the bundle, as last Qt5 and KF5 frameworks. AppImage use Fuse file-system, which is de-compressed into a temporary directory to start the application. You don’t need to install digiKam on your system to be able to use it. Better, you can use the official digiKam from your Linux distribution in parallel, and test the new version without any conflict with one used in production. This permit to quickly test a new release without to wait an official package dedicated for your Linux box. Another AppImage advantage is to be able to provide quickly a pre-release bundle to test last patches applied to source code, outside the releases plan.

The bundle include main 3rd-party libraries used by digiKam as Lensfun, OpenCV, and Exiv2. All are optimized for digiKam, and without extra or experimental configurations which can crash the application in special cases.

Arch Linux is an independently developed, i686- and x86_64-optimised Linux distribution targeted at competent Linux users. It uses ‘pacman’, its home-grown package manager, to provide updates to the latest software applications with full dependency tracking. Operating on a rolling release system, Arch can be installed from a CD image or via an FTP server. The default install provides a solid base that enables users to create a custom installation. In addition, the Arch Build System (ABS) provides a way to easily build new packages, modify the configuration of stock packages, and share these packages with other users via the Arch Linux user repository.

That’s right, Arch Linux 2022.11.01 is out, and it’s powered by the recently released Linux 4.8.6 kernel, which makes Arch Linux the first GNU/Linux distribution to offer a live and installable ISO image powered by the latest stable and most advanced Linux kernel version available, at least at the moment of writing this blog story.

Pierre Schmitz has announced the availability of Arch Linux 2012.11.01, the latest of the regular installation CD images that the project providing a popular rolling-release Linux distribution now makes available at the beginning of each month. This is mostly a bug-fix release. From the release announcement

The latest snapshot of our install and rescue media can be found on our Download page. The 2022.11.01 ISO image mainly contains minor bug fixes, cleanups and new packages compared to the previous one:

• First media with Linux 3.6
• copytoram=n can be used to not copy the image to RAM on network boot. This is probably unreliable but an option for systems with very low memory.
• cowfile_size boot parameter mainly for persistent COW on VFAT. See the README file for details.

As expected, Arch Linux 2022.11.01 is available for download right now and you can get it through our portal, or, if you prefer to fetch it as a torrent or magnet, you can check out the official download page. It is distributed as a dual-arch, bootable ISO image that supports both 64-bit and 32-bit platforms.